Wildfire Smoke and Your HealthAs a result of the wildfires burning throughout out province, we expect to see significant wildfire smoke reach our region soon. Wildfire smoke is a form of air pollution that can affect your health. Depending on the weather, distance from the fire and the mixture of fuels, wildfire smoke causes episodes of the worst air quality that most people will ever experience in British Columbia. Now is the time to prepare for the smoky days that can be harmful to yourhealth.
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Effective at noon Wednesday, June 30 and until further notice, all open burning, including campfires, are banned
in the City of Parksville and the surrounding fire protection area. The fire protection area encompasses the City
of Parksville, French Creek areas bordering the City of Parksville to the edge of the fire protection area at
Johnston and Drew Roads, San Pariel, Fourneau Road, Wildgreen Road and Martindale Road areas.Link to pdf
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LINK TO PDFNew Governance Structure for EMO (with a thank you!) The emergency programs for the City of Parksville and Town of Qualicum Beach work in unison to provide large scale disaster support and emergency service to residents of the Oceanside region. The Emergency Management Oceanside partnership provides an efficient, effective and cooperative approach to a holistic emergency program in our region. EMO provides professional 24/7 emergency support and has the capacity to develop and un
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On May 25, the province laid out a four-step reopening plan that could see us slowly return to normal as the number of vaccinations rise and the number of cases drop. While these are approximate dates, the plan will be guided by data, not dates, and will not proceed to the next step until it is safe to do so based on guidance from public health and the latest available data. Please refer to the government's restart program for details as well as information about steps 3 and 4. Thank y
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With the long weekend just ahead of us, we are reminded to follow public health advice to stay in our community and avoid non-essential travel; we know this virus moves with people. We all wish we could press a pandemic pause button and enjoy the May long weekend as we would normally; however, COVID-19 is still in our community. There is some good news: As of May 13, there were 153 active cases in the Island Health Region with 57 in the Central Island. Over the past seven-day repo
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